Essay by PZ Myers at Pharyngula based on an article titled “Darwin’s Rape Whistle: Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?“, ….. The story is that women have evolved specific adaptive responses to the threat of rape. In support of this conclusion, the au[...]
Archive for October, 2011
October 19th, 2011 - 3:33 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: N. Korea Style
October 12. 2011 Juche 100 Banquet Given by Central Committee and Central Military Commission of WPK Talks between DPRK and Lao Delegations Held Lao Delegation Arrives Russian Ambassador to DPRK Gives Reception Palestinian Ambassador to DPRK Gives Reception Anniversary of Establishment of Diplomati[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
October 18th, 2011 - 12:01 pm § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Romney Rocky in NH
Early New Hampshire Primary Could Backfire on Romney NATE SILVER posts that Romney’ lead “isn’t a very large lead. His point is that with less than 25 percent popularity amoing Republicans, Romney is vulnerable to a poweful insurgent, like Rick Perry , who may be able to game[...]
How to Reach a Republican
from The American Digest From The American Digest: Dubya and Me – Walt Harrington As [Bush] talked, I even thought about an old Saturday Night Live skit in which an amiable, bumbling President Ronald Reagan, played by Phil Hartman, goes behind closed doors to suddenly become a masterful oper[...]
October 17th, 2011 - 10:28 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Libya, Bani Walid falls
BANI WALID, Libya, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Fighters with Libya’s interim government have captured the town of Bani Walid, firing their guns into the air and hoisting the country’s new flag over the centre of one of the final bastions of Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists. Where is Gad[...]
October 17th, 2011 - 11:43 am § in America
Preserving the Bucky Dome
An effort to restore the dome has been given new life with the recent award of a Save America’s Treasures matching grant to the tune of $125,000. “He envisioned the dome as a house. It was the first dome home. It’s the only one he ever lived in,” says Janet Donoghue, developm[...]
NAOMI KLEIN speaks to the 99%
Naomi Klein to Occupy Wall Street: Get Organized By Nick Pinto – October 13th, 2011 Published in The Village Voice. Naomi Klein, the Canadian journalist famous for her anti-corporatist books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, spoke to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street yesterday evening,[...]
October 16th, 2011 - 8:56 am § in Misc.
AVE CHALLENGE: Which of these famous men is a lobbyist for Mujahideen-e Khalq?
Whish of these famous men is a lobbyist for Mujahedin el-Khalq? 1.a,d,e,h 2. e 3. f,b,c,g 4. a 5. all of them. For answers go to Huffington Post’s : Mujahideen-e Khalq: Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization a. Michael Mukasey, former Attorney[...]
October 16th, 2011 - 6:24 am § in Uncategorized
Sunday Revelations: The End, no revelations next Sunday!
Why is the LAST Sunday Revelations? from Wikipedia, Great Disappointment and Adventist In August 1844 at a camp-meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented a message that became known as the “seventh-month” message or the “true midnight cry.” In a discussion ba[...]